Gabby Hayes Western #37

Stickler for Facts! centers on a playful bet between Gabby Hayes and Locoweed Lew, who claims he can identify what Lew ate today based on dried egg fragments on his chin—only for Lew to cleverly counter that he ate the eggs last week, leaving the bet unresolved in a humorous twist. The story captures the lighthearted, tongue-in-cheek tone of the Western frontier with a focus on wordplay and small-town wit.

Rapp the Reporter bursts into the office with a wild claim about an exclusive front-page story, boasting that no other paper knows about it—only to reveal he made the entire thing up himself. His exaggerated confidence and the boss’s bewildered reaction highlight the story’s lighthearted, humorous take on journalistic overreach in the Western frontier.

A young man named Deeds nervously tells Mister Carson he’s just married, shocking Carson with the news that Deeds’s father now has another wife to support. The twist leaves Carson stunned, but the story holds back on how this unexpected family situation will unfold.

A young man nervously tries to determine if his new circus worker girlfriend likes him, only to be teased by his friend Molasses Mouth, who points out their amusingly mismatched personalities—she’s a weight lifter, and he’s, well, a dumberbell.

Young Falcon, a lone hunter of the woods, helps a young woman named Red Star after her canoe is destroyed, only to learn that her people believe only the mysterious Ruma can build a safe canoe—until Young Falcon vows to prove otherwise. As he prepares to test his own canoe in the deadly rapids, he uncovers a hidden trap beneath the water, revealing Ruma’s deception and exposing his claim of supernatural power as a cruel fraud.

Sulky, convinced his friends are right, abandons his horse to take a stagecoach for a vacation, only to endure a miserable journey filled with overcrowding and delays. After being packed in with seventeen other passengers and forced to walk home when the driver had no room, he bitterly regrets his decision.

Gabby Hayes and Fred race to rescue Ken Tucky from grizzly bears, while Ornery Oscar flees with stolen gold, leading Gabby into a series of perilous traps in the hot springs. As Gabby endures scalding waters and magnetic rocks, he outwits Oscar’s schemes in a wild, steam-filled showdown.